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“We have more to learn from animals than animals have to learn from us.”

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Anthony D. Williams is a renowned author. Born on June 11, 1953, he is known for his insightful writing style and profound understanding of social issues. more

“The very people who shudder over the cruelty of the hunter are apt to forget that slaughter, in the grimmest sense of the word, is a process they entrust daily to the butcher; and that unlike the game of the forests, even the dumbest creatures of the slaughterhouse know what is in store for them.”

People Knows Games Process Forget Animal Creatures Stores Forests Cruelty Animal Rights Hunters Slaughter Butchers Slaughterhouses

Author:Lewis Mumford

“Family organisation is broken and young animals are increasingly being denied a mother to turn to for comfort and for grooming. One of the saddest and most pathetic of farm practices - inevitable at the present time for the supply of dairy produce - is the separation of the calf from the cow at birth or soon after.”

Young Mother Turns Animal Practice Produce Broken Birth Comfort Separation Inevitable Farms Animal Rights Denied Cows Pathetic Organisation Saddest Present Time Dairy Calves Grooming

Author:Ruth Harrison

“To argue that we humans are capable of complex multifarious thought and feeling, whereas the sheep's perception is probably limited by lowly sheepish perceptions, is no more to the point than if I were to slaughter and eat you on the grounds that I am a sophisticated personality able to enjoy Mozart, formal logic and cannibalism, whereas your imaginative world seems confined to True Romances and tinned spaghetti.”

“We know from the truths of evolution and ecology that we are all related and interdependent. Anthropomorphism (crediting animals with human emotions and traits) is, however, outdated. Rather we know that we are like animals.”

Knows Humans Animal Emotion Evolution Related Animal Rights Traits Ecology Human Emotions Outdated Anthropomorphism

Book:One Earth, One Mind

Source: One Earth, One Mind

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